The role of Mission Councils in the Scottish Mission in South Africa: 1864-1923

Abstract:

The role of Mission Councils in the growth and development of
the Scottish Mission in South Africa is a confusing and vexing
one. Whereas they were conceived and established as a means
of facilitating mission, they often hindered this by drawing
distinctions between agents of mission and delineating spheres
of authority through exercises of power, even in opposition to
expressed mission policy derived from Scotland. In essence,
they were an integral part of the hegemonic missionary worldview,
which frustrated progress towards the formation of the
Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa in 1923.

Citation:Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol 38, no 1, pp 217-234

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